Re:*sigh* (Score 1)

Bad analogy. Let me modify it: DRM is more like a padlock on a homeowner's breaker box or water heater, requiring the average, unskilled person to pay an employee of the manufacturer of the device to enable him to change his house voltage from 110VAC to 40VAC, or get hot water from his own property at 99 degrees Celsius. In other words, stuff that "the average Joe" isn't really likely to do, and quite possibly not even stuff the majority of /. readers are likely to do. I really think DRM is intended to, and mostly does, deter the casual thief, just like the lock on your house. Sometimes you lock yourself out, and yes that's a pain, but no one screams "I only live in houses which aren't kept locked so as to really allow me to enter and leave freely and in the manner I choose." That would be foolish.